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I THE REVEILLE, 1 LIVE km v IS TBLianED EVERY THURSDAY. Office u. 2d Stof Pitkin' Building. -- circulation larger than that of Jfoxlrt rrW imMUhed In Scot- ,llB.Wi.RK.-nvIns recently Bttcd op r .nice ih npw Type and fart Presses, " lK.tt,.r pre pared to do good Job-Print- j at lower rate than any otheromce )n?thi pirtofthe State. Call and see .p,,-iincns. Oil 1 13 M. mort on Friday erenliiff before v .i . r..il ntrM-.ii in iuh mouth, in li.nie Hall, on the South-west l.- Civwirt li C f ran J E Twx T. oahd. Secretary. isTFRX STAR CHAPTER No. 2fl A . '. . rit V.hmIt eveninsr In each li men ... -. -- ,r . . Hall- BonlU. .u v. Cr-VXIXGHAM, II. 1 Ctu. . Martin. Secretary. KILWINNING LODGE. No. 37S. A. F. v . M.. Vnionton. Mo.. meets Satur- rnMlTH.WM. Scotland Lodge, No, 104, auI. O.O. F..meet every Monday 6g?v evening, at o'clock, at Odd F,ik,w Hall in PttWa Building. AH In,mNrs in good standing are invited to r"nd John II. M CLCH, N. O. St. M. Gwynse, Secretary. MKMPHIS ENCAMPMENT, NO. 75, I. O. O. V.. meets 1st and 3d Thurs-J,v evenings In each months. Visiting patriarchs cordially Invited. - - F PHILLIP PaYbe, C. P. H . n. Wellington, scribe. Professional & Business Cards. A.TTOUNFA'H. WILLIAM T. KAYS, 1 TTOltyEY AT LA TV Mem ruts. Scotland Cocntt, Mo. T - Real F.Ute a neeialtr. Will practice in all the Coort of the 4th Judicial Circuit an.i tlie Supreme Court. -offii-e over Lycaa tz Bros. Store Eit"ni-le of square. IQ-Ht. TAMES A. RICIIAUDSOX, 1 r TOR yJSY a t LA W and notarv rcuiJC. liScc. Fjit side of Square, over Metys store, J mj.hif. - Afo. "VViil practice m Scotland and atjoining ciuuti-- EI I SOOFIELD. NAT. M. GWYNNB. A TTO I X KYS at LAW, ffii-e ov r Patterson & Walker" store, Xentj.kis, - AVi!' pmi-tVe in the Courts of Scotland and i;iiut!W coiiutie. -19 L. CKAMEK, AiTORXEY at LAW ANl t)TAKY I'LIIMC. otl.cf.arCrai; Mc Arthur's drughtore, ill pnoi-e in Si-otland and adjoiuinjf .jni!ii-. Special uttcution given toabract-ia-"f land titles. -l PIlYSlCIAXH. y A. MONROE. M. 1)., Jietti ph iff, .1 o. V.'i I continue to attend promptly to all fr-iMunil .-alls in t ity or Country, by do or i!i-!it. CiARGKs warkantkd a kt:A-XHI.E a thosse of ant .lblibcd Pbytkiriain. (ikuck- First room over Pavon I'u'.-i-!!- Kre. IVrinniM-nt reidciiee, thf t -;i..t hunt of Wab. Hudson. Emj., in "!ith part of towu , . W . MVKI'JIV JNO. k.pakrisii. IKPHY & PARKISH, Vhusicinu Sttraeons, MF.MI'HIS, MISSOfRf. "t-c S..-ri:il aTtention jrivcu to Surgery, Suri'-il :inl uil Cbnnic Diseases. i",n'K-Fi- 1nor weft of south -wet eor-rf Public Squire. 13 M. W. MOOKE, Vitsirinn A Surgeon, MKMI'IIIS. MO. Sj-cri:d ntt-ntin gtven to Surgery inl Ii-:tf of the Eve. V ( flir West s-ide Square, up stairs ov r WclMer'a ftore. 21) J II. BRUMBAUGH M. D. I'iysieian C' Surgeon, Memphis, Mo. Office in New Hotel Building. X. NEWMAN, M. D., Practicing Physician, Having permanently lo-atd In this city, f flVr hi- l'rofc;iouaf Services to the citl-in or McinphU and viciuity. pS- )flie at drug-store, North-west cornt-r Siiiare- " 10-8 p T. NEEL. M. D., Physician and, Surgeon, MEMPHIS, MO. Professional ca'N ntteuded to at all hour, utlice at W. T. Neel's drug store. R-M.FHKI.KN. T. B. GCNN. JIELEN & GUNN, l'tysirian and Surgeons, JJ)li. JULIAN GUOBOWSKI, Physician- and Surgeon. May always be found at his residence tw. luilvo wnith of Hitt. He wants cash r u iuivalc nt for his services, 5 Jjli- li. P. MITCHELL, Practicing PJnjsieian, AEBELA. M0. GTEFFAX & PRICE, kJ rAtHtO!fABLB tin then tf Hair lrrsers. Shop on Market strrct. four doora south cr ouih-rast comer of Square. V EM PHIS. MO EW SHAVING SALOON. J. H. Vester, The Practical Hair Cutter. Saratoga Feather Edge. MACKLEV HOTEL. Tonsoile Parlor. MEMPHIS, MO. pATTEKSON HOUSE, V. A.& J. C. PaTTkrson. Pron'rs. KEOKUK. IOWA Cy. W. Jamison, Editor & Publisher. VOL. 10. LOANS. JOANS NEGOTIATED On FIVE YEARS' TIME. In sums of f 1.000 and upwards, secured by unencumbered, improved farming lands. GTSO TRUST DEEDS ARB REQUIRED TO BE EXECUTED AND RECORDED UNTIL 2 BE MONEY IS AT HAND. For full information apply at The Scotland Coanty Bank, 20-tf Memphis, Mo. nnuoGiMT. HUNDREDS CAN TESTIFY That during tbe past Winter XT. St. Bruaiba-ugh. Has Sold Goods at auch Greatly Reduced Prices As to Call Forth the ASTONISHMENT And Wonder of all w ho have purchased Goods from him. nd now that Spring is approaching, so comes ! with a Greatly Increased Stock 01ieiu.icn.ls, Patent Medicines. &c. All articles for the Toilet-Hair, Tooth, Nail and other varieties of Brushes. IVORY AND FINE TOOTH COMBS AND DRESSING COMBS in Great Variety. Toilet Soaps or Ererj Kind. Paper, School Books, Stationery, &c, &c. VOILS. VAitXISUES. WINDOW-GLASS. I'UTTY. CIOAUS. TOBACCOS, and all Goods kept in A WELL REGULATED DUG STORE ! WMv PRESCRIPTION DEP ART-MEN T In 'complete, an I Prescription will be -oniKun!ed with Carrfuhie ami DtM-patch at all hours of the day or night. Thankful for all patronage, I solicit a continuance of the same U. K. BRUMBAUGH. 20 Memphis. Mo. BOOTH V HUOLl. OnN SCIIULER. FASH IONABLK Boot & Shoe Maker, fsnop 9 doora West of Patterson & Walker's, MEMPHIS, MO. tZSAl kinds of repairing done on short notice. All work warranted. DENT1HT. C. -8. Vredenburg, DENTIST, Office South tide of the Public Square, over W in . Webster a store, MEMPHIS, MISSOURI. ALL operations of the profession performed in a iM?rior manner at Vetera nrices. Artlhcial teeth inserted from one to an entire t.et and warranted. ItXlllliiery, rvc 3Iak.Iutr. fc' N EW MILLINERY GOODS. Mrs. Lke Davis ttq n Vinnd nml is continually rcceivinz a splendid assortment of Millinery Goods ins Goods, &c. all of the latest and most Improved styles. S5T All work done with neatness, promptness and at the lowestrates. Rooms South Side Public Suuare. -QRESS MAKING. MRS. ELLEN HARPER Ttnta L.va tn infArm tho TjllllOM of Mem phis and vicinity, that she is prepared to do all kinds of Dress-Making and Cutting in the bet manner and most approved styles. ftr Also, Agent lor me. saiu oi jiauii; Demorests' Patterns. ' Leave orders at her residence. r. Go88ie flapper & Miss Coajers, ANI DRESS MAKERS, South side of tbe Public Square, MEMPHIS, MISSOURI KEEP constantly on hand a pood assortment of Millinery Goods of every description and of the very Latest Styles. EJ- Dress-Making. Cutting and Fitting a specialty. Ladies, irfve us a call. - -yYANTED ! ! WAliTED ! ! ! 500 Families To buy Milk every morning and Evening of the OAKLAX1) DAIRY! Price of mil k reduced to 5 cts. per quart after May loth. KUTZNER. Bros., Proprietors. Hemphit . Mo., May 6th, 1S75. She trmpbw mt. THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1875. Peters A Jamison, Proprietor. "C. B. D." After our Observer with a Miarp Stick. Hiawatha, Kan., May 25. ' Dear Reveille : We heard it drop all the way from Burnt-Shirt that unique ville with its score of comely ali(ases) and one other, not an ali but a real yaw-he. "Observer"' evidently thought be was raising a huge mass of venom from his griping spleen, but it was as humble as the puke of aturkey-buzzard, and very similar in its offensive nature. Toward the close of this conglomerated product of the muddled braiu of this chronic scrawler and would-be atinua ad lyrium, to sing of the exit of John Smith from tbe land which Bender had forsaken, to join, perhap?, a more congenial element in the land of the James Bros. I say towards tbe close of this incongruous and jumbled mass of butchered English, Observer complains of being blackguarded. We were not aware of his being the verdant victim of certain swindlers spoken of in one of his former epistles, or we would not have been so personal, in our remarks. He also says that I insinuated "caterwauling at sundry Kansas letter writers for simply telling the truth." The Kansas letter writers referred to have always spoken in glowing terms f our State. And did they tell the truth ? Observer, didn't you get 3'our foot in it then ? But caterwauling was only a quotation from one of Observer's former letters. Wouldn't it look a little better if Observer would rub up his memory, and not make himsrlf so absurd ridiculous ? But we will not advise Observer to desist from his blackguardism, for in that case we would bo deprived of his discordant chin music altogether; so we will let bitu alone, joined to his idol. But a few words for the garden of the West. We gave you a phase of Kansas prospects in our last, but we are happy to say our prospects are assuming a more encouraging form. We acknowledge it was hard to keep up courage at our last writing. Frost and grasshoppers seemed to have devnstcd some of our lii-lds entirely, but fine showers and warm weather have caused tho grain to spring up again, and it seems to have sustained little Injury. The hoppers arc continuing their work of destruction in some localities, and may yet do much damage. They ate expected to leave about the 20th of June, as is their custom. It is now too late for the grain lo do any good which has been eaten off, but the ground is being planted in corn. My statement with reference to the freezing out of wheat is not inconsistent with that of J. C. S. I gather from reports that the wheat was more injured in this county the past winter than in any other county in the State. But if the farmers of Scotland county should use their wheat tiulds as do the farmers ol '.his county, they would not know a biscuit from a cod-fish ball. Tho wheat fields are pastured Irom November until April, yet are seldom injured by this treatment, the past winter being an exception. Fields that were not pastured are now looking well. Corn is by no means a failure in this State. It is my candid opinion, and I think it can be proven by statistics, that the average yield per acre in this county for tbe last fifteen years, will far exceed the average of Scotland county during the same period. If Observer could have witnessed the multiplied thousands of bushels of corn consumed by our steam mills, heating stores. &c, would he then clasp his hands over bis already scaly lips, and "boot at tho glorious sun in heaven," and cry out: "Where is it?' Our farmers only need a few lessons in economy. About all the fruits of this latitude are raised here and in abundance. The grasshoppers ate up thousands of bushels of peaches in this section last year ; yet they left far more tbau could be disposed of by the people. The healthmlness of this State is not to be surpassed anywhere. Ague that unwelcome - guest who has forced an acquaintance in almost every home in Scotland county, is an abso-late stranger here. No invalids are made bere. Those among us are health-seekers from other States. They find the object of . their search too, if not too far gone before coming. There is health and healing in every summer breeze. We do not close doors and windows to keep out "night air.' In our mid-summer nights no weary laborer lies rolling on his sultry couch spitting cuss-words at the pesky mus-quito, as he plies him with his poisoned bill, and sings his mimic songs of the lower hades ; but may lay him down to pleasant dreams,while the constant and balmy breeze lulls him to rest and cools bis heated and weary limbs. But J, perhaps, transgress upon vour space and patience, and will desist until Observer spills himself down one more column unless he catches and bangs by hi cor-o-da! appendage. In that case I'll let him bang, for I think brains should be uppermost. C. B. D. SCOTLAND COUNTY A Home for the Home-Seeker. MEMPHIS, MO., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, The new Law Making tbe Property or the M. I. & N. Railroad Co. Taxable. AN ACT to repeal the section nine of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Alexandria and Bloom field Rail road Company," approved February he 9th. A. 1). 1875; and to subject tbe stock of said Railroad Company to taxation. WuEitEAS, It a pjrars that more than thirty days previous notice has been given to th President and Secretary of the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company, of the intended application to the Legislature of this State at this session for amend ments to tbe charter of the Alexandria . and Bloom field Railway Company, approved February 9th, A. D. 1857. as hereinafter provided ; and that the said Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company have become successors to the said Alexandria an1 Bloomfield Railway Company; and whereas, the counties of Clark. Scotland and Schuyler, through which said companies road passes, have contributed largely to the construction of said road ; and whereas, the circumslancex existing at the time of the granting of said charter have greatly changed, and the wants and necessities of the State, and right and justice require that all property in this State, not exempt from taxation by an irreparable contract, should boar their duo proportion of the public burthen; therefore. Be it enacted by the General Astembly of the Stale of Missouri, as follows : Section 1. The ninth section of the act entitled, "an act to incorporate the Alexandria and BloomnVId Railway Company," approved February 9th. A. D. 1857, is hereby repealed. Sec. 2. All the property of the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company, whether real, personal cr mixed, and the stock of said cDmpany, shall hereafter be subject to taxation for all purposes for which other property in this State is liable to be taxed. Sec. 3. All the laws now in force for assessing and collecting taxes on Railroads shall apply and be in force as to the "Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska Railway Company," and its officers with like force and effect as to other Railroads in this State. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and alter its passage. Approved Feb. 27th, 1875. Pennsylvania Republicans. The Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania met at Lancaster, in that State on tho 26th ult. Gov. Hartanft was nominated by acclamation, and II . W. Rawle, Mayor of Erie, was nominated for State Treasurer. Below wc print the declaration of principles adopted : 1. Equality without special favors. 2. Harmony of National and State Governments. 3. Unity of the nation. 4. Econoruioal administration of the Government; honesty in all branches of the civil service, and accountability of the officers. 5. Protection to home products and industries. C. The rijfht of the laborer to protection ; harmony between labor and capital . 7. Cheap transportation. 9. Reservation of public domain lor actual settle! S. 10. Equalization of bounties. 11. Honest men in office. The last resolution is as follows: lltsolved. That we deviate a firm and unqualified adherence to the u .- written law or ine wpuoiic, wnicu wisely, and under the most venerable example, restticts the Presidential service of any citizen to two terms ; and wc, Republicans or Pennsylvania. in recognition of this law are unaltera- bly opposed to the election to the Presidencv of anv person for a third term . The remaining resolutions endorse the administration of President Grant as among the brilliant achievements in the annals of the country ; eulogize Governor Hartranft; arraign the Democratic patty for dishonoring the fctate by the arbitrary exercise of legislative power, and heartily approve of the efforts of the Government to punish defrauders of the revenue. The Kahoka Gazelle says the following affecting letter was picked up on tho street one day last week. We give it verbatim, et literatim, et punnctaum : kahoka may llth 1875. dear merry: i was powerfull afeard you got madd at me when youofered me a cheer and i dident set down to tel you the truth merry i cud not becose i bad a consorned bile so help me graceous i did i seen you dident laff when i passt you on the streat, an thowt i wood gist tel awl about it strait that bile consorn the thing wuz as big as your fist an owful soar did you ever hev any then you no. so good bi Josh. p s i have stood fur 2 weaks to eat mi mcels. Not a Word!" In one of the courts lately, there was a long and heated discussion between the counsel as to whether a witness should be allowed to answer the follwing question : 'What did Mary say P' Three judges took nearly an hour to decide the point, and at last allowed it. The question was put to the witness by tba defensejand the reply was short and sweet 'Not a word. A recent obituary of the London Times contained notices of the death of thirteen persons whose united acs amounted to 1,126 years. The oidest of the number was 93 years of age. A man in Jersey City recently went to enter a complaint against his wife ; but when the magistrate came to 611 up the warrant the man could not give bis wife's first name, and Hated that he had never known it. 8. Free banking, sate and uoitorm , jike ,ut,y WM3 ti. and he beleeved National currency adapted to the ! . d j jd f co8 growing wants of the country, and a- .... steady reduction ol the National debt. how :udJ babies cum up? M Little Johnny on Babies. I From Harper's Bazar. Babies aint big enuf to lick, or you wude see me a piching into 'em. I can tell you, for I don't like em, but wen you luke at one, and see era so little. you say now if 1 was to take of my cote and give you a jjood thrashin' you cudent help yoursef so may be you cant help bein a nuisance, too. That's wot I say wen our baby puts its gummy Imnds into mv lace wen ime made to set and mind him, but you jest wait til he gets as big as m, so it wude be a fair fite, and then see wat He d , thats all! I spose I like that little fellar. like I'me tide to. but what does he put his gummy hands for in my face wen I kiss him ? I no ware there is a baby wich is a lot older than ourn, but not morn halef so big, and it cant wok, and tok, but 8cch dresses as that baby wears wudo make yure bead swim. It is in a shop windo. and it is made of whax. I spose babies is different from fokes cos they dont no no better, but if 1 was them you wudeut catch me a putin every thing in this world into my mouths, I can tel you, like ourn does. Mary, thats the housemaid, she was only a chilo when she was to home, and she come to home, and she use to have dols but she never see a meat baby real cloce til she come to oar house, and that girl was jest a 6tonish ol the time to see wot baby wude do, and it was morn a munth fore she wud tuch it. One day Mary she come a bustin in the dinin room wen it was dinner, wite like a sheet, and hardly any brcth, and she said O, if j'ou please, mum, baby has went and ct the nursry dore every bit up, ol but jes the nob ; but wen my mother she went to see wot was tbe matter, it was only father had tukc of the dore to mend it, and baby was a suckin a paper wade. Sech a girl I I have a other to tel you a bout Mary, thats the house maid. When she firs cum to live with us one day Uncle Ned he was a plain with the baby after lunchen, and he had the cork of a ale bottle a sticken on the cork scru, and he was a lettin baby take it in his mowth. Mary she cum in while he was a doin it, and she see him pull it out quick, and she ran in the kitchen as fas as ever thu cud and brot Uncle Ned a tumbler on a tray ! 'Tween you and ine I dont believe that girls got any thinker! One day my father was read in something out loud wich he had found in the paper about baby farmin, and ole Gaffer Peters, wich was there, herd til father got done, und he said he went in for a law to keep the squires from leasin their land to the farmers for seech wile- perpesses, cos, for his part, he diddent see any differents between plantiu babies and bury in em There was a man and his wife and their Iittlo baby and they lived by their sell's in the woods, ten hundred thousand miles from any other house. The man he hunted deers with a gun, and I tho woman she stade to home to mind bahv and cuke the meat. And one j oftle dark nite the man haddent cum ; home, and the woman she new he had , , t and wag ki, b SJlbb.li?es atld 6 mi.., r i j ct by a wil beast, she was a frade. Rime by, way in the nite, she herd something like a lite! chile, a ciy in and a cry in, outside in the dark, sometimes on one side of the house , and sometimes opt, and she said it was a spirit wich had cum for her baby, so she set it in the middel of tho room and hugged her baby, and was friten tuose to death. And the thing kep a cryin, and a cryin, til her blud run cole, but baby-was a sleep in her arms, poor thing. At las she herd a noise at the windo, and she luked up and hollered, for she see two grate eyes a lukin in thru theglas, like coles of fire, and Ime that friten I cant lite any more, cos its nite, and Ime a lone, wares my mother? Ive fouu Uncle Ned, and he has lit his pipe, and he says drive ahead, Johnny, if you conjer up a fitin demon He stan by and see fair play, wel jus then there was a gun, .for it was a panther, and tbe man had cum home and shot it. But wen be went in the house, his wife dident kno him, cos she had went mad, and she had hug the litel baby so tite it was dead. If lde a bin her yttde a saw me get the poker and wak strate up to the windo, and lde a said Mister Panther, if you carry fire in your eyes you has got to be poked, and lde a let him have it as far as I could make it go and said hooray ! But Uncle Ned he says wot wude I done if I had see a notis on the windo like at the menag erie, dont wory the animels t Two babies wich is jest a like is twins, but Misses Jonsin she tole me a offle crammer, for she said hern was twins, wich aint so, cos I saw em, and one is a girl. May be tho other is a twin, but a twins no good unless its got a mate, its like a pair of boots wen one has been given to tbe poor, who wants the other ? I dont kno how fokes which has twins gits on for there wudent be enuf things in the house for two babies to put in their mouths. My father he says babies putin things in their mouths is a instinct, cos in a natcheral state they wud hf to eat EVE I Terms 1875. lots of things which they wud find, or they wud starve, but I think they mite of most as wel starve to deth as get pizened. Ourn is named Frank, and I have wrote some poetry which is for mother to sing him to 6leep wen he wude rather stay a wake and hammer the legs of the pean O with a bottle of colone. Seepity. Seepity, Frankity Frank, Buten its blu eyes up, hanky pank pank; Scch a rum baby nobody ain't ot. And if they wude say so, wy that wude be rot. " Lully boy. lully boy, f-nority snore, Vii it wakes up it shall crol on ihe Core, Sech a run baby nobody aint see, And if they wude say so they goto fite me, Hooray ! wont my mother just go wild with happy when I sho her that, and say I made it ol my ownself, you must git it by heart real quick ? And wont she say Mary, thafs the bouse maid, you cum this minit and mind these eggs a bilin, cos I got to put baby to sleep, poor little feller, he is so tired ! Mark Twain at a Hartford Spelllnr Match. Ladies and gentlemen : I have been honored with the office of introducing these approaching orthographical solemnities with a few remarks . The temperance crusade swept the land some time ago that is, that vast portion of tho land where it was needed but it skipped Hartford. Now comes this new spelling epidemic, and this time we are stricken. So I sup pose we needed the affliction. I don't say we needed it, for I don't see any use in spelling a word right and never did. I mean I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome ; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to roe, there is such a breezy, unfettered originality about this orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better.' It gives the imag ination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive, new kind of a cow. Superb effects can be produced by variegated spelling. Now there is blind Tom. the musical prodigy. He always spells a word according to the sound that is carried to his ear. And he is an enthusiast in orthography. When you give him a word he shouts it out puts all bis soul into it. I once heard him called upon to spell oraus-outang before an audience. He said, "O, . r-a-n-g, orang, g-e-r, ger, oranggcr, t-a-n-gtang, oranggertang! ' Now a body cm respect an orang outang that spells his name in a vigorous way like that. But the feeble dictionary makes a mere kitten of him. In the old times people spelled just as they pleased. That was the right idea You had two chances at a stranger then. You knew a strong man from a weak one by his iron-clad spelling, and his handwriting helped you to verify your verdict. Snake-Charmers at Benares. One morning two snake-charmers called at the hotel. Around their necks huge lioa-conslrictors were twined and each carried jars of smaller snakes. and one of scorpions. The performance consisted in taking ihe venomous snakes Irom tho jars in which they lay coiled, and in picking them up, the men placing their fingers in the reptiles mouths tantalizing them to a frenzy. and then wrapping the whole ab.mt their heads and necks, where the hissing, writhing mass presented a frightful spectacle. A cobra bit the finger of one of the men twice, and each time he immediately made use of various charms placed a small round stone over the cut flesh, smelt of a piece of wood resembling flag-root, and then used it for making a circle about his wrist. This he told me would effectually prevent the absorption of the poison into the system. The stone draws out the blood and with it, of course, the virus. It is generally supposed, however, and with much reason, that the poison glands of the cobra have been removed in the first instance by the crafty snake-charmers. Several times the cobras advanced until within a foot of my chair, bat turned back at command of their masters. During the entertainment one of the men played at intervals upon a sort of flag eolet. The scorpion divertissement consisted in stringing numbers of them together (as the whips of tbe Furies were made.) which the men then bung upon their lips, nose and ears. Scrib-tier. He said he had an orignal poem for sale, which be would part with cheap, as times were hard and he wanted money. The poem contained twelve lines, and he would sell it at 75 cents a line. The editor told hm they weren't paying out much for poetry just at present, but asked him to read It. He commenced in a low, sad tone of voice, as follows: "Dearest father, thou has left us, And thy loss we deeply feel " And when bo picked himself up at the bottom of the stairs there was a shadow on his brow. Fresh gold and silver discoveries are bein-f made In " New England, daily. Massachusetts is leaving its spindles tor mining, and who knows but that gold underlies the whole Atlantic as well as the Pacific slope ? -$1.59 a Year, in Advance. NO. 30. A Heroic Brakrman. George B. Granger, a brakeman on the Boston and Lowell Railroad, has earned a fame which will live for generations. He was on duty on the inward Montreal Express, and when between Wilmington and Woburn the coupling gave way between two of the cars on tho forward part of the train, and the engine and two or three of the cars which were held to it being thus relieved of the weight of the half- dozen cars immediately ran off from them. When the detachment took place the train was running at the rate of 35 miles per hour. At this moment Granger was silting at the window of the last car in the first part of the train and seeing the bell-rope quickly draw, observed the break in a second and immediately jumped to action. He knew that if the bell-rope sounded tbe engineer s bell the engineer wouiu stop the train and then the rear part thereof would crash against the front, so be rapidly pulled the rope toward him from the rear and speedily detached it. He then ran through the train, clambered over the engine e tender, in order to cause the engineer to accelerate his speed so as to keep out of the way of the rear part. Realizing moreover, that the first impulse of the engineer, who 6tood with one hand on the lever, would be to stop the train, he stepped up to him with forced calmness, put one hand on his shoulder and the other on tbe hand that held the lever said, "don't stop." Having put the engineer on his guard he pointed out the danger. Passen gers who were anxiously watching. say the engineer, when the danger became apparent to him, turned pale but remained cool and at once put on all possible speed to keep out of the way of the detached part of the train, which was thundering along behind. This done, tho engineer blew his signal to put on brakes, hoping the brakeman or some one else on the rear of the train would hear and act upon the signal ; but no one did, and the race was thus kept up for a couple of miles. with imminent risk of colliosion, and no one iu the rear pail of the car con scious of danger. Fortunately the up train for Lawrence came along at this juncture, and the erginecr sounded his whistle, and by this means aroused the brakemau on the detached portion of the train, who soon averted further danger by applj ing bis brakes. But for the coolness and prompt action of Granger a terrible accident was in evitable. How be Left Town. The Vallejo (Cal.) Chronicle relates the following incident concerning a Vallejo minstrel: When we remarked in Friday's issues of the troubles encountered by the Vallejo Minstrel Troupe at Suisun, California, that they were totally busted, we were not strictly accurate. One of their number reveled in the possesslou of $1.40. As soon as the fact spread among the remaining members of the company every man of them made a dash to borruw it. The capitalist, however. didn't care about going into the bank ing business just then, and, to get rid of the importunities, decided to desert. He made a break for tbe county road, with the calculation of changing his minstrel part and assuming the char acter of Weston in his great walking feat, with Vallejo as the place for the curtain to drop. He found the road extremely level, and considered it the best walking he had seen for some tune. Tbe scenery, after a while. seemed a little monotonous ; but then he wasn't traveling to inspect the beauties of the landscape, and the road still continued as fine as ever. Just as he was beginning to think that it was time to see Vallejo heave in sight, morning began to dawn, and, as the gray light made-objects more visible, what was his dismay and horror to see the town of Fairfield near by, and himself in the middle of the Fairfield race-track! He had been walking around it all night. A Text for a Sermon. A bright little boy, Just three years-old, la like most little chaps of bis age, some times refactory. I order to curb him and make bim a rood little boy, his mother often threatened him with a peach "persuader." The little fellow has come to understand any allusion to the peach tree, and usually sub sides when it Ls spoken of. A day or two ago, since the flowering of the fruit trees, a slight reference was made to the same tree, when tho little fellow made peace for that day by looking up and saying: 'Why mammathe switches aro covered with roses. And now American editors are looking over into the land flowing with milk and honey, through the medium of paragraphs, to the effect that Napoleon Zespes, late editor o' the Paris Petit Moniteor, reveled in a salary of $20,000 a year. He wrote but one article a day, and Vidocq, the famous detective, is said to have taught him a thing or two about that, And yet this great man died, and editors who never had a plug hat or a shirt that buttoned up behind in their lives, live on, and on. There are crack s in tho walls of the new custom-bouse in Chicago, and it only needs the climbing ivy to make it a picturesque ruin. ADVERTISING. shack. Iw 2w j 4w tut I Cat Jy 1 square .;tlM $2.00 $3.00 5.6b tKfX'fJO squares! S.W 4.M! 8.00 Ki.lO IS a square j 3..10I fl.Oo! 8.00 10.00; IS.fO X column I 0.00' 8.00! 10.00: 1&.00' 20.00 $ column! 7.00,10.00; la.on , ix.oo i'o.oo column 10.00 12.00' 1.1.00 20.C0 oO.W 1 column ti.OO; 20.00, 2fi.O0. 40.00 00.00 HO 80 W 0 Lejr-,1 advertisements at legal rates. Notices fn Loral or reading matter, tan cents a line for each insertion. Transient advertisements muit invariably bo paid for in advance. -Advertisement inserted till forbid, will he continued until ordered out, in all instances, and charged for accordingly. A Council Bluffs Romance. Births and marriages and deaths comprise about the sum total of the living business anyhow, and all occasion trouble marriages causing not the least. It's so everywhere, and especially so at Council Bluffs, Iowa, if the experience of Helena Stillwater and young Collins i a common one. Old Jonathan Still water is a great man in the vicinty of Council Bluffs ; bo has been Justica of the Peace repeatedly and owns broad acres, and is widely known under the popular title of "Old Still.' Lena is the oldest daughter of Still water jere, and Lena has long loved a youug named Frank Collins. They concluded to get married recently, and Frank, feeling himseif to be respectable and well-intentioned youth, 6tarted 'out to ask old Stillwatur'f consent to the union, never anticipa-ting a refusal. Ho found his charm er's father in the barn, and at once mado known bis wishes. The old gentleman at once returned a flat refusal to Frank's pleadings, and when that young gentleman announ ced his intention to marry Lena any how the irate father pounded him with a swill-pail. Thus ended tbe first chapter of tbe romauce with the stern parent ahead. The second chapter followed in a day or two with tbe lover in the lead. Frank conclu ded to utilize the romantic end. He magnified the attack upon him with the swill-pail and went before a Justice and made an affidavit. Dignified old Jonathan Stillwater was arresstcd for having attempted life of Frank Collins and the day of trial desig nated. At tbe appointed dato the court was crowded ; both the Collins and Stillwater families were influen tial ones and the neighbors came from miles around to listen to the trial. Just as the proceedings were about to open the counsel for the prosecution rose. Mizht it please the Court, ho he had something to communicate. He was happy to inform the Court that the case was to bo settled somewhat out of the usual way. If the Court would ierform the ceremony there would be then and there a marriage between the prosecutor and the defendant's daughter. The Court consented; Lena and Frank stood up and wt-ro made one flesh and the prosecution was dismissed. Frank bad used the law adroitly and smoothed the course of true love with a warrant. How to Break off Bad Habits. Understand the reason, and all the reasons, why this habit is injurious. Study the subject until there is no lingering doubt in your mind. Avoid tbe places, the persons, and the thoughts that lead to the temptation. Frequent the places, associate with the persons, indulge iu thoughts that lead away from temptation. Keep busy; idleness is the strength of bsd babit9. Do not give up the struggle when you have broken your resolution once, twice a thousand times. That only shows hew much need there ii for you to strive. When you bave broken your resolution fust think the matter over, and endeavor to under stand why it is you failed, so that you may be on your guard agaiost a recurrence of the same circumstances. Do not thiok it is an easy thing that you have undertaken. It is a folly to expect to break off a bad habit in a day which may hare been gathering long years. A Handt Sidewalk. Danville, Iowa, has inaugurated a new enter- . . """ a prise in ine snapo or jnaia ruooer side-walks, three hundred yards having been put down on one of the principal streets. Only one ob jection has been found to it its order in warm weather; uut tuts it has been found, can be neutralized by washing it occasionally in a solution of borax and coal tar. On the other hand it has several advantages not at first manifest. All the boys in the village can run over ir. and it will make no noise. Accident discovered another convenient con sequence of its well known elasticity ; a merchant jumping from his buggy bounded over tue gate ana was thrown with considerate leree onto the roof of bis plana ; but now after a little experience and practice 1 ! .... I .L l.l...ll. ne can ricocnei iron in- nurwn-, to the porch with tbe gvaceial accuracy of a flying squh-rttL Another advantage is that it can be sireictieu ns circumstances nay demand. A the town grows it can k parted out towards tbe subnrbe. Two yoke of rattle can lengthen it three miles a day. TIm teachers in the publfo schools at San Franci.co have been using the rod upon their pupils with so great severity that the press bave taken up the matter and insist upon reform. One little girl was so severely beaten rvvenlly tor a trival offense, that she went into hysterica and was ill for a week follow W. When a horse breaks its log it Is now longer necessary to sIhkH it, in order to save its life, as the Irishman did with hi pis: that was hint by tho crs." A rcterinary sorjreon of Utrecht. Lonj I-land, recently set tbe broken hind-leg of a horse so successfully that tho animal is sound as ever. It took about six weeks to effect the cure. ' To dissuade people from marrying send them to the sea-side, and they will be always bearing tho moaning of tbe tied. A man'i v'rtu-s are always where iiiiu ill. m bu faoilta are ran- erallv somewhere round the voraf "

I THE REVEILLE, 1 LIVE km v IS TBLianED EVERY THURSDAY. Office u. 2d Stof Pitkin' Building. -- circulation larger than that of Jfoxlrt rrW imMUhed In Scot- ,llB.Wi.RK.-nvIns recently Bttcd op r .nice ih npw Type and fart Presses, " lK.tt,.r pre pared to do good Job-Print- j at lower rate than any otheromce )n?thi pirtofthe State. Call and see .p,,-iincns. Oil 1 13 M. mort on Friday erenliiff before v .i . r..il ntrM-.ii in iuh mouth, in li.nie Hall, on the South-west l.- Civwirt li C f ran J E Twx T. oahd. Secretary. isTFRX STAR CHAPTER No. 2fl A . '. . rit V.hmIt eveninsr In each li men ... -. -- ,r . . Hall- BonlU. .u v. Cr-VXIXGHAM, II. 1 Ctu. . Martin. Secretary. KILWINNING LODGE. No. 37S. A. F. v . M.. Vnionton. Mo.. meets Satur- rnMlTH.WM. Scotland Lodge, No, 104, auI. O.O. F..meet every Monday 6g?v evening, at o'clock, at Odd F,ik,w Hall in PttWa Building. AH In,mNrs in good standing are invited to r"nd John II. M CLCH, N. O. St. M. Gwynse, Secretary. MKMPHIS ENCAMPMENT, NO. 75, I. O. O. V.. meets 1st and 3d Thurs-J,v evenings In each months. Visiting patriarchs cordially Invited. - - F PHILLIP PaYbe, C. P. H . n. Wellington, scribe. Professional & Business Cards. A.TTOUNFA'H. WILLIAM T. KAYS, 1 TTOltyEY AT LA TV Mem ruts. Scotland Cocntt, Mo. T - Real F.Ute a neeialtr. Will practice in all the Coort of the 4th Judicial Circuit an.i tlie Supreme Court. -offii-e over Lycaa tz Bros. Store Eit"ni-le of square. IQ-Ht. TAMES A. RICIIAUDSOX, 1 r TOR yJSY a t LA W and notarv rcuiJC. liScc. Fjit side of Square, over Metys store, J mj.hif. - Afo. "VViil practice m Scotland and atjoining ciuuti-- EI I SOOFIELD. NAT. M. GWYNNB. A TTO I X KYS at LAW, ffii-e ov r Patterson & Walker" store, Xentj.kis, - AVi!' pmi-tVe in the Courts of Scotland and i;iiut!W coiiutie. -19 L. CKAMEK, AiTORXEY at LAW ANl t)TAKY I'LIIMC. otl.cf.arCrai; Mc Arthur's drughtore, ill pnoi-e in Si-otland and adjoiuinjf .jni!ii-. Special uttcution given toabract-ia-"f land titles. -l PIlYSlCIAXH. y A. MONROE. M. 1)., Jietti ph iff, .1 o. V.'i I continue to attend promptly to all fr-iMunil .-alls in t ity or Country, by do or i!i-!it. CiARGKs warkantkd a kt:A-XHI.E a thosse of ant .lblibcd Pbytkiriain. (ikuck- First room over Pavon I'u'.-i-!!- Kre. IVrinniM-nt reidciiee, thf t -;i..t hunt of Wab. Hudson. Emj., in "!ith part of towu , . W . MVKI'JIV JNO. k.pakrisii. IKPHY & PARKISH, Vhusicinu Sttraeons, MF.MI'HIS, MISSOfRf. "t-c S..-ri:il aTtention jrivcu to Surgery, Suri'-il :inl uil Cbnnic Diseases. i",n'K-Fi- 1nor weft of south -wet eor-rf Public Squire. 13 M. W. MOOKE, Vitsirinn A Surgeon, MKMI'IIIS. MO. Sj-cri:d ntt-ntin gtven to Surgery inl Ii-:tf of the Eve. V ( flir West s-ide Square, up stairs ov r WclMer'a ftore. 21) J II. BRUMBAUGH M. D. I'iysieian C' Surgeon, Memphis, Mo. Office in New Hotel Building. X. NEWMAN, M. D., Practicing Physician, Having permanently lo-atd In this city, f flVr hi- l'rofc;iouaf Services to the citl-in or McinphU and viciuity. pS- )flie at drug-store, North-west cornt-r Siiiare- " 10-8 p T. NEEL. M. D., Physician and, Surgeon, MEMPHIS, MO. Professional ca'N ntteuded to at all hour, utlice at W. T. Neel's drug store. R-M.FHKI.KN. T. B. GCNN. JIELEN & GUNN, l'tysirian and Surgeons, JJ)li. JULIAN GUOBOWSKI, Physician- and Surgeon. May always be found at his residence tw. luilvo wnith of Hitt. He wants cash r u iuivalc nt for his services, 5 Jjli- li. P. MITCHELL, Practicing PJnjsieian, AEBELA. M0. GTEFFAX & PRICE, kJ rAtHtO!fABLB tin then tf Hair lrrsers. Shop on Market strrct. four doora south cr ouih-rast comer of Square. V EM PHIS. MO EW SHAVING SALOON. J. H. Vester, The Practical Hair Cutter. Saratoga Feather Edge. MACKLEV HOTEL. Tonsoile Parlor. MEMPHIS, MO. pATTEKSON HOUSE, V. A.& J. C. PaTTkrson. Pron'rs. KEOKUK. IOWA Cy. W. Jamison, Editor & Publisher. VOL. 10. LOANS. JOANS NEGOTIATED On FIVE YEARS' TIME. In sums of f 1.000 and upwards, secured by unencumbered, improved farming lands. GTSO TRUST DEEDS ARB REQUIRED TO BE EXECUTED AND RECORDED UNTIL 2 BE MONEY IS AT HAND. For full information apply at The Scotland Coanty Bank, 20-tf Memphis, Mo. nnuoGiMT. HUNDREDS CAN TESTIFY That during tbe past Winter XT. St. Bruaiba-ugh. Has Sold Goods at auch Greatly Reduced Prices As to Call Forth the ASTONISHMENT And Wonder of all w ho have purchased Goods from him. nd now that Spring is approaching, so comes ! with a Greatly Increased Stock 01ieiu.icn.ls, Patent Medicines. &c. All articles for the Toilet-Hair, Tooth, Nail and other varieties of Brushes. IVORY AND FINE TOOTH COMBS AND DRESSING COMBS in Great Variety. Toilet Soaps or Ererj Kind. Paper, School Books, Stationery, &c, &c. VOILS. VAitXISUES. WINDOW-GLASS. I'UTTY. CIOAUS. TOBACCOS, and all Goods kept in A WELL REGULATED DUG STORE ! WMv PRESCRIPTION DEP ART-MEN T In 'complete, an I Prescription will be -oniKun!ed with Carrfuhie ami DtM-patch at all hours of the day or night. Thankful for all patronage, I solicit a continuance of the same U. K. BRUMBAUGH. 20 Memphis. Mo. BOOTH V HUOLl. OnN SCIIULER. FASH IONABLK Boot & Shoe Maker, fsnop 9 doora West of Patterson & Walker's, MEMPHIS, MO. tZSAl kinds of repairing done on short notice. All work warranted. DENT1HT. C. -8. Vredenburg, DENTIST, Office South tide of the Public Square, over W in . Webster a store, MEMPHIS, MISSOURI. ALL operations of the profession performed in a iM?rior manner at Vetera nrices. Artlhcial teeth inserted from one to an entire t.et and warranted. ItXlllliiery, rvc 3Iak.Iutr. fc' N EW MILLINERY GOODS. Mrs. Lke Davis ttq n Vinnd nml is continually rcceivinz a splendid assortment of Millinery Goods ins Goods, &c. all of the latest and most Improved styles. S5T All work done with neatness, promptness and at the lowestrates. Rooms South Side Public Suuare. -QRESS MAKING. MRS. ELLEN HARPER Ttnta L.va tn infArm tho TjllllOM of Mem phis and vicinity, that she is prepared to do all kinds of Dress-Making and Cutting in the bet manner and most approved styles. ftr Also, Agent lor me. saiu oi jiauii; Demorests' Patterns. ' Leave orders at her residence. r. Go88ie flapper & Miss Coajers, ANI DRESS MAKERS, South side of tbe Public Square, MEMPHIS, MISSOURI KEEP constantly on hand a pood assortment of Millinery Goods of every description and of the very Latest Styles. EJ- Dress-Making. Cutting and Fitting a specialty. Ladies, irfve us a call. - -yYANTED ! ! WAliTED ! ! ! 500 Families To buy Milk every morning and Evening of the OAKLAX1) DAIRY! Price of mil k reduced to 5 cts. per quart after May loth. KUTZNER. Bros., Proprietors. Hemphit . Mo., May 6th, 1S75. She trmpbw mt. THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1875. Peters A Jamison, Proprietor. "C. B. D." After our Observer with a Miarp Stick. Hiawatha, Kan., May 25. ' Dear Reveille : We heard it drop all the way from Burnt-Shirt that unique ville with its score of comely ali(ases) and one other, not an ali but a real yaw-he. "Observer"' evidently thought be was raising a huge mass of venom from his griping spleen, but it was as humble as the puke of aturkey-buzzard, and very similar in its offensive nature. Toward the close of this conglomerated product of the muddled braiu of this chronic scrawler and would-be atinua ad lyrium, to sing of the exit of John Smith from tbe land which Bender had forsaken, to join, perhap?, a more congenial element in the land of the James Bros. I say towards tbe close of this incongruous and jumbled mass of butchered English, Observer complains of being blackguarded. We were not aware of his being the verdant victim of certain swindlers spoken of in one of his former epistles, or we would not have been so personal, in our remarks. He also says that I insinuated "caterwauling at sundry Kansas letter writers for simply telling the truth." The Kansas letter writers referred to have always spoken in glowing terms f our State. And did they tell the truth ? Observer, didn't you get 3'our foot in it then ? But caterwauling was only a quotation from one of Observer's former letters. Wouldn't it look a little better if Observer would rub up his memory, and not make himsrlf so absurd ridiculous ? But we will not advise Observer to desist from his blackguardism, for in that case we would bo deprived of his discordant chin music altogether; so we will let bitu alone, joined to his idol. But a few words for the garden of the West. We gave you a phase of Kansas prospects in our last, but we are happy to say our prospects are assuming a more encouraging form. We acknowledge it was hard to keep up courage at our last writing. Frost and grasshoppers seemed to have devnstcd some of our lii-lds entirely, but fine showers and warm weather have caused tho grain to spring up again, and it seems to have sustained little Injury. The hoppers arc continuing their work of destruction in some localities, and may yet do much damage. They ate expected to leave about the 20th of June, as is their custom. It is now too late for the grain lo do any good which has been eaten off, but the ground is being planted in corn. My statement with reference to the freezing out of wheat is not inconsistent with that of J. C. S. I gather from reports that the wheat was more injured in this county the past winter than in any other county in the State. But if the farmers of Scotland county should use their wheat tiulds as do the farmers ol '.his county, they would not know a biscuit from a cod-fish ball. Tho wheat fields are pastured Irom November until April, yet are seldom injured by this treatment, the past winter being an exception. Fields that were not pastured are now looking well. Corn is by no means a failure in this State. It is my candid opinion, and I think it can be proven by statistics, that the average yield per acre in this county for tbe last fifteen years, will far exceed the average of Scotland county during the same period. If Observer could have witnessed the multiplied thousands of bushels of corn consumed by our steam mills, heating stores. &c, would he then clasp his hands over bis already scaly lips, and "boot at tho glorious sun in heaven," and cry out: "Where is it?' Our farmers only need a few lessons in economy. About all the fruits of this latitude are raised here and in abundance. The grasshoppers ate up thousands of bushels of peaches in this section last year ; yet they left far more tbau could be disposed of by the people. The healthmlness of this State is not to be surpassed anywhere. Ague that unwelcome - guest who has forced an acquaintance in almost every home in Scotland county, is an abso-late stranger here. No invalids are made bere. Those among us are health-seekers from other States. They find the object of . their search too, if not too far gone before coming. There is health and healing in every summer breeze. We do not close doors and windows to keep out "night air.' In our mid-summer nights no weary laborer lies rolling on his sultry couch spitting cuss-words at the pesky mus-quito, as he plies him with his poisoned bill, and sings his mimic songs of the lower hades ; but may lay him down to pleasant dreams,while the constant and balmy breeze lulls him to rest and cools bis heated and weary limbs. But J, perhaps, transgress upon vour space and patience, and will desist until Observer spills himself down one more column unless he catches and bangs by hi cor-o-da! appendage. In that case I'll let him bang, for I think brains should be uppermost. C. B. D. SCOTLAND COUNTY A Home for the Home-Seeker. MEMPHIS, MO., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, The new Law Making tbe Property or the M. I. & N. Railroad Co. Taxable. AN ACT to repeal the section nine of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Alexandria and Bloom field Rail road Company," approved February he 9th. A. 1). 1875; and to subject tbe stock of said Railroad Company to taxation. WuEitEAS, It a pjrars that more than thirty days previous notice has been given to th President and Secretary of the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company, of the intended application to the Legislature of this State at this session for amend ments to tbe charter of the Alexandria . and Bloom field Railway Company, approved February 9th, A. D. 1857. as hereinafter provided ; and that the said Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company have become successors to the said Alexandria an1 Bloomfield Railway Company; and whereas, the counties of Clark. Scotland and Schuyler, through which said companies road passes, have contributed largely to the construction of said road ; and whereas, the circumslancex existing at the time of the granting of said charter have greatly changed, and the wants and necessities of the State, and right and justice require that all property in this State, not exempt from taxation by an irreparable contract, should boar their duo proportion of the public burthen; therefore. Be it enacted by the General Astembly of the Stale of Missouri, as follows : Section 1. The ninth section of the act entitled, "an act to incorporate the Alexandria and BloomnVId Railway Company," approved February 9th. A. D. 1857, is hereby repealed. Sec. 2. All the property of the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company, whether real, personal cr mixed, and the stock of said cDmpany, shall hereafter be subject to taxation for all purposes for which other property in this State is liable to be taxed. Sec. 3. All the laws now in force for assessing and collecting taxes on Railroads shall apply and be in force as to the "Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska Railway Company," and its officers with like force and effect as to other Railroads in this State. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and alter its passage. Approved Feb. 27th, 1875. Pennsylvania Republicans. The Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania met at Lancaster, in that State on tho 26th ult. Gov. Hartanft was nominated by acclamation, and II . W. Rawle, Mayor of Erie, was nominated for State Treasurer. Below wc print the declaration of principles adopted : 1. Equality without special favors. 2. Harmony of National and State Governments. 3. Unity of the nation. 4. Econoruioal administration of the Government; honesty in all branches of the civil service, and accountability of the officers. 5. Protection to home products and industries. C. The rijfht of the laborer to protection ; harmony between labor and capital . 7. Cheap transportation. 9. Reservation of public domain lor actual settle! S. 10. Equalization of bounties. 11. Honest men in office. The last resolution is as follows: lltsolved. That we deviate a firm and unqualified adherence to the u .- written law or ine wpuoiic, wnicu wisely, and under the most venerable example, restticts the Presidential service of any citizen to two terms ; and wc, Republicans or Pennsylvania. in recognition of this law are unaltera- bly opposed to the election to the Presidencv of anv person for a third term . The remaining resolutions endorse the administration of President Grant as among the brilliant achievements in the annals of the country ; eulogize Governor Hartranft; arraign the Democratic patty for dishonoring the fctate by the arbitrary exercise of legislative power, and heartily approve of the efforts of the Government to punish defrauders of the revenue. The Kahoka Gazelle says the following affecting letter was picked up on tho street one day last week. We give it verbatim, et literatim, et punnctaum : kahoka may llth 1875. dear merry: i was powerfull afeard you got madd at me when youofered me a cheer and i dident set down to tel you the truth merry i cud not becose i bad a consorned bile so help me graceous i did i seen you dident laff when i passt you on the streat, an thowt i wood gist tel awl about it strait that bile consorn the thing wuz as big as your fist an owful soar did you ever hev any then you no. so good bi Josh. p s i have stood fur 2 weaks to eat mi mcels. Not a Word!" In one of the courts lately, there was a long and heated discussion between the counsel as to whether a witness should be allowed to answer the follwing question : 'What did Mary say P' Three judges took nearly an hour to decide the point, and at last allowed it. The question was put to the witness by tba defensejand the reply was short and sweet 'Not a word. A recent obituary of the London Times contained notices of the death of thirteen persons whose united acs amounted to 1,126 years. The oidest of the number was 93 years of age. A man in Jersey City recently went to enter a complaint against his wife ; but when the magistrate came to 611 up the warrant the man could not give bis wife's first name, and Hated that he had never known it. 8. Free banking, sate and uoitorm , jike ,ut,y WM3 ti. and he beleeved National currency adapted to the ! . d j jd f co8 growing wants of the country, and a- .... steady reduction ol the National debt. how :udJ babies cum up? M Little Johnny on Babies. I From Harper's Bazar. Babies aint big enuf to lick, or you wude see me a piching into 'em. I can tell you, for I don't like em, but wen you luke at one, and see era so little. you say now if 1 was to take of my cote and give you a jjood thrashin' you cudent help yoursef so may be you cant help bein a nuisance, too. That's wot I say wen our baby puts its gummy Imnds into mv lace wen ime made to set and mind him, but you jest wait til he gets as big as m, so it wude be a fair fite, and then see wat He d , thats all! I spose I like that little fellar. like I'me tide to. but what does he put his gummy hands for in my face wen I kiss him ? I no ware there is a baby wich is a lot older than ourn, but not morn halef so big, and it cant wok, and tok, but 8cch dresses as that baby wears wudo make yure bead swim. It is in a shop windo. and it is made of whax. I spose babies is different from fokes cos they dont no no better, but if 1 was them you wudeut catch me a putin every thing in this world into my mouths, I can tel you, like ourn does. Mary, thats the housemaid, she was only a chilo when she was to home, and she come to home, and she use to have dols but she never see a meat baby real cloce til she come to oar house, and that girl was jest a 6tonish ol the time to see wot baby wude do, and it was morn a munth fore she wud tuch it. One day Mary she come a bustin in the dinin room wen it was dinner, wite like a sheet, and hardly any brcth, and she said O, if j'ou please, mum, baby has went and ct the nursry dore every bit up, ol but jes the nob ; but wen my mother she went to see wot was tbe matter, it was only father had tukc of the dore to mend it, and baby was a suckin a paper wade. Sech a girl I I have a other to tel you a bout Mary, thats the house maid. When she firs cum to live with us one day Uncle Ned he was a plain with the baby after lunchen, and he had the cork of a ale bottle a sticken on the cork scru, and he was a lettin baby take it in his mowth. Mary she cum in while he was a doin it, and she see him pull it out quick, and she ran in the kitchen as fas as ever thu cud and brot Uncle Ned a tumbler on a tray ! 'Tween you and ine I dont believe that girls got any thinker! One day my father was read in something out loud wich he had found in the paper about baby farmin, and ole Gaffer Peters, wich was there, herd til father got done, und he said he went in for a law to keep the squires from leasin their land to the farmers for seech wile- perpesses, cos, for his part, he diddent see any differents between plantiu babies and bury in em There was a man and his wife and their Iittlo baby and they lived by their sell's in the woods, ten hundred thousand miles from any other house. The man he hunted deers with a gun, and I tho woman she stade to home to mind bahv and cuke the meat. And one j oftle dark nite the man haddent cum ; home, and the woman she new he had , , t and wag ki, b SJlbb.li?es atld 6 mi.., r i j ct by a wil beast, she was a frade. Rime by, way in the nite, she herd something like a lite! chile, a ciy in and a cry in, outside in the dark, sometimes on one side of the house , and sometimes opt, and she said it was a spirit wich had cum for her baby, so she set it in the middel of tho room and hugged her baby, and was friten tuose to death. And the thing kep a cryin, and a cryin, til her blud run cole, but baby-was a sleep in her arms, poor thing. At las she herd a noise at the windo, and she luked up and hollered, for she see two grate eyes a lukin in thru theglas, like coles of fire, and Ime that friten I cant lite any more, cos its nite, and Ime a lone, wares my mother? Ive fouu Uncle Ned, and he has lit his pipe, and he says drive ahead, Johnny, if you conjer up a fitin demon He stan by and see fair play, wel jus then there was a gun, .for it was a panther, and tbe man had cum home and shot it. But wen be went in the house, his wife dident kno him, cos she had went mad, and she had hug the litel baby so tite it was dead. If lde a bin her yttde a saw me get the poker and wak strate up to the windo, and lde a said Mister Panther, if you carry fire in your eyes you has got to be poked, and lde a let him have it as far as I could make it go and said hooray ! But Uncle Ned he says wot wude I done if I had see a notis on the windo like at the menag erie, dont wory the animels t Two babies wich is jest a like is twins, but Misses Jonsin she tole me a offle crammer, for she said hern was twins, wich aint so, cos I saw em, and one is a girl. May be tho other is a twin, but a twins no good unless its got a mate, its like a pair of boots wen one has been given to tbe poor, who wants the other ? I dont kno how fokes which has twins gits on for there wudent be enuf things in the house for two babies to put in their mouths. My father he says babies putin things in their mouths is a instinct, cos in a natcheral state they wud hf to eat EVE I Terms 1875. lots of things which they wud find, or they wud starve, but I think they mite of most as wel starve to deth as get pizened. Ourn is named Frank, and I have wrote some poetry which is for mother to sing him to 6leep wen he wude rather stay a wake and hammer the legs of the pean O with a bottle of colone. Seepity. Seepity, Frankity Frank, Buten its blu eyes up, hanky pank pank; Scch a rum baby nobody ain't ot. And if they wude say so, wy that wude be rot. " Lully boy. lully boy, f-nority snore, Vii it wakes up it shall crol on ihe Core, Sech a run baby nobody aint see, And if they wude say so they goto fite me, Hooray ! wont my mother just go wild with happy when I sho her that, and say I made it ol my ownself, you must git it by heart real quick ? And wont she say Mary, thafs the bouse maid, you cum this minit and mind these eggs a bilin, cos I got to put baby to sleep, poor little feller, he is so tired ! Mark Twain at a Hartford Spelllnr Match. Ladies and gentlemen : I have been honored with the office of introducing these approaching orthographical solemnities with a few remarks . The temperance crusade swept the land some time ago that is, that vast portion of tho land where it was needed but it skipped Hartford. Now comes this new spelling epidemic, and this time we are stricken. So I sup pose we needed the affliction. I don't say we needed it, for I don't see any use in spelling a word right and never did. I mean I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome ; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to roe, there is such a breezy, unfettered originality about this orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better.' It gives the imag ination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive, new kind of a cow. Superb effects can be produced by variegated spelling. Now there is blind Tom. the musical prodigy. He always spells a word according to the sound that is carried to his ear. And he is an enthusiast in orthography. When you give him a word he shouts it out puts all bis soul into it. I once heard him called upon to spell oraus-outang before an audience. He said, "O, . r-a-n-g, orang, g-e-r, ger, oranggcr, t-a-n-gtang, oranggertang! ' Now a body cm respect an orang outang that spells his name in a vigorous way like that. But the feeble dictionary makes a mere kitten of him. In the old times people spelled just as they pleased. That was the right idea You had two chances at a stranger then. You knew a strong man from a weak one by his iron-clad spelling, and his handwriting helped you to verify your verdict. Snake-Charmers at Benares. One morning two snake-charmers called at the hotel. Around their necks huge lioa-conslrictors were twined and each carried jars of smaller snakes. and one of scorpions. The performance consisted in taking ihe venomous snakes Irom tho jars in which they lay coiled, and in picking them up, the men placing their fingers in the reptiles mouths tantalizing them to a frenzy. and then wrapping the whole ab.mt their heads and necks, where the hissing, writhing mass presented a frightful spectacle. A cobra bit the finger of one of the men twice, and each time he immediately made use of various charms placed a small round stone over the cut flesh, smelt of a piece of wood resembling flag-root, and then used it for making a circle about his wrist. This he told me would effectually prevent the absorption of the poison into the system. The stone draws out the blood and with it, of course, the virus. It is generally supposed, however, and with much reason, that the poison glands of the cobra have been removed in the first instance by the crafty snake-charmers. Several times the cobras advanced until within a foot of my chair, bat turned back at command of their masters. During the entertainment one of the men played at intervals upon a sort of flag eolet. The scorpion divertissement consisted in stringing numbers of them together (as the whips of tbe Furies were made.) which the men then bung upon their lips, nose and ears. Scrib-tier. He said he had an orignal poem for sale, which be would part with cheap, as times were hard and he wanted money. The poem contained twelve lines, and he would sell it at 75 cents a line. The editor told hm they weren't paying out much for poetry just at present, but asked him to read It. He commenced in a low, sad tone of voice, as follows: "Dearest father, thou has left us, And thy loss we deeply feel " And when bo picked himself up at the bottom of the stairs there was a shadow on his brow. Fresh gold and silver discoveries are bein-f made In " New England, daily. Massachusetts is leaving its spindles tor mining, and who knows but that gold underlies the whole Atlantic as well as the Pacific slope ? -$1.59 a Year, in Advance. NO. 30. A Heroic Brakrman. George B. Granger, a brakeman on the Boston and Lowell Railroad, has earned a fame which will live for generations. He was on duty on the inward Montreal Express, and when between Wilmington and Woburn the coupling gave way between two of the cars on tho forward part of the train, and the engine and two or three of the cars which were held to it being thus relieved of the weight of the half- dozen cars immediately ran off from them. When the detachment took place the train was running at the rate of 35 miles per hour. At this moment Granger was silting at the window of the last car in the first part of the train and seeing the bell-rope quickly draw, observed the break in a second and immediately jumped to action. He knew that if the bell-rope sounded tbe engineer s bell the engineer wouiu stop the train and then the rear part thereof would crash against the front, so be rapidly pulled the rope toward him from the rear and speedily detached it. He then ran through the train, clambered over the engine e tender, in order to cause the engineer to accelerate his speed so as to keep out of the way of the rear part. Realizing moreover, that the first impulse of the engineer, who 6tood with one hand on the lever, would be to stop the train, he stepped up to him with forced calmness, put one hand on his shoulder and the other on tbe hand that held the lever said, "don't stop." Having put the engineer on his guard he pointed out the danger. Passen gers who were anxiously watching. say the engineer, when the danger became apparent to him, turned pale but remained cool and at once put on all possible speed to keep out of the way of the detached part of the train, which was thundering along behind. This done, tho engineer blew his signal to put on brakes, hoping the brakeman or some one else on the rear of the train would hear and act upon the signal ; but no one did, and the race was thus kept up for a couple of miles. with imminent risk of colliosion, and no one iu the rear pail of the car con scious of danger. Fortunately the up train for Lawrence came along at this juncture, and the erginecr sounded his whistle, and by this means aroused the brakemau on the detached portion of the train, who soon averted further danger by applj ing bis brakes. But for the coolness and prompt action of Granger a terrible accident was in evitable. How be Left Town. The Vallejo (Cal.) Chronicle relates the following incident concerning a Vallejo minstrel: When we remarked in Friday's issues of the troubles encountered by the Vallejo Minstrel Troupe at Suisun, California, that they were totally busted, we were not strictly accurate. One of their number reveled in the possesslou of $1.40. As soon as the fact spread among the remaining members of the company every man of them made a dash to borruw it. The capitalist, however. didn't care about going into the bank ing business just then, and, to get rid of the importunities, decided to desert. He made a break for tbe county road, with the calculation of changing his minstrel part and assuming the char acter of Weston in his great walking feat, with Vallejo as the place for the curtain to drop. He found the road extremely level, and considered it the best walking he had seen for some tune. Tbe scenery, after a while. seemed a little monotonous ; but then he wasn't traveling to inspect the beauties of the landscape, and the road still continued as fine as ever. Just as he was beginning to think that it was time to see Vallejo heave in sight, morning began to dawn, and, as the gray light made-objects more visible, what was his dismay and horror to see the town of Fairfield near by, and himself in the middle of the Fairfield race-track! He had been walking around it all night. A Text for a Sermon. A bright little boy, Just three years-old, la like most little chaps of bis age, some times refactory. I order to curb him and make bim a rood little boy, his mother often threatened him with a peach "persuader." The little fellow has come to understand any allusion to the peach tree, and usually sub sides when it Ls spoken of. A day or two ago, since the flowering of the fruit trees, a slight reference was made to the same tree, when tho little fellow made peace for that day by looking up and saying: 'Why mammathe switches aro covered with roses. And now American editors are looking over into the land flowing with milk and honey, through the medium of paragraphs, to the effect that Napoleon Zespes, late editor o' the Paris Petit Moniteor, reveled in a salary of $20,000 a year. He wrote but one article a day, and Vidocq, the famous detective, is said to have taught him a thing or two about that, And yet this great man died, and editors who never had a plug hat or a shirt that buttoned up behind in their lives, live on, and on. There are crack s in tho walls of the new custom-bouse in Chicago, and it only needs the climbing ivy to make it a picturesque ruin. ADVERTISING. shack. Iw 2w j 4w tut I Cat Jy 1 square .;tlM $2.00 $3.00 5.6b tKfX'fJO squares! S.W 4.M! 8.00 Ki.lO IS a square j 3..10I fl.Oo! 8.00 10.00; IS.fO X column I 0.00' 8.00! 10.00: 1&.00' 20.00 $ column! 7.00,10.00; la.on , ix.oo i'o.oo column 10.00 12.00' 1.1.00 20.C0 oO.W 1 column ti.OO; 20.00, 2fi.O0. 40.00 00.00 HO 80 W 0 Lejr-,1 advertisements at legal rates. Notices fn Loral or reading matter, tan cents a line for each insertion. Transient advertisements muit invariably bo paid for in advance. -Advertisement inserted till forbid, will he continued until ordered out, in all instances, and charged for accordingly. A Council Bluffs Romance. Births and marriages and deaths comprise about the sum total of the living business anyhow, and all occasion trouble marriages causing not the least. It's so everywhere, and especially so at Council Bluffs, Iowa, if the experience of Helena Stillwater and young Collins i a common one. Old Jonathan Still water is a great man in the vicinty of Council Bluffs ; bo has been Justica of the Peace repeatedly and owns broad acres, and is widely known under the popular title of "Old Still.' Lena is the oldest daughter of Still water jere, and Lena has long loved a youug named Frank Collins. They concluded to get married recently, and Frank, feeling himseif to be respectable and well-intentioned youth, 6tarted 'out to ask old Stillwatur'f consent to the union, never anticipa-ting a refusal. Ho found his charm er's father in the barn, and at once mado known bis wishes. The old gentleman at once returned a flat refusal to Frank's pleadings, and when that young gentleman announ ced his intention to marry Lena any how the irate father pounded him with a swill-pail. Thus ended tbe first chapter of tbe romauce with the stern parent ahead. The second chapter followed in a day or two with tbe lover in the lead. Frank conclu ded to utilize the romantic end. He magnified the attack upon him with the swill-pail and went before a Justice and made an affidavit. Dignified old Jonathan Stillwater was arresstcd for having attempted life of Frank Collins and the day of trial desig nated. At tbe appointed dato the court was crowded ; both the Collins and Stillwater families were influen tial ones and the neighbors came from miles around to listen to the trial. Just as the proceedings were about to open the counsel for the prosecution rose. Mizht it please the Court, ho he had something to communicate. He was happy to inform the Court that the case was to bo settled somewhat out of the usual way. If the Court would ierform the ceremony there would be then and there a marriage between the prosecutor and the defendant's daughter. The Court consented; Lena and Frank stood up and wt-ro made one flesh and the prosecution was dismissed. Frank bad used the law adroitly and smoothed the course of true love with a warrant. How to Break off Bad Habits. Understand the reason, and all the reasons, why this habit is injurious. Study the subject until there is no lingering doubt in your mind. Avoid tbe places, the persons, and the thoughts that lead to the temptation. Frequent the places, associate with the persons, indulge iu thoughts that lead away from temptation. Keep busy; idleness is the strength of bsd babit9. Do not give up the struggle when you have broken your resolution once, twice a thousand times. That only shows hew much need there ii for you to strive. When you bave broken your resolution fust think the matter over, and endeavor to under stand why it is you failed, so that you may be on your guard agaiost a recurrence of the same circumstances. Do not thiok it is an easy thing that you have undertaken. It is a folly to expect to break off a bad habit in a day which may hare been gathering long years. A Handt Sidewalk. Danville, Iowa, has inaugurated a new enter- . . """ a prise in ine snapo or jnaia ruooer side-walks, three hundred yards having been put down on one of the principal streets. Only one ob jection has been found to it its order in warm weather; uut tuts it has been found, can be neutralized by washing it occasionally in a solution of borax and coal tar. On the other hand it has several advantages not at first manifest. All the boys in the village can run over ir. and it will make no noise. Accident discovered another convenient con sequence of its well known elasticity ; a merchant jumping from his buggy bounded over tue gate ana was thrown with considerate leree onto the roof of bis plana ; but now after a little experience and practice 1 ! .... I .L l.l...ll. ne can ricocnei iron in- nurwn-, to the porch with tbe gvaceial accuracy of a flying squh-rttL Another advantage is that it can be sireictieu ns circumstances nay demand. A the town grows it can k parted out towards tbe subnrbe. Two yoke of rattle can lengthen it three miles a day. TIm teachers in the publfo schools at San Franci.co have been using the rod upon their pupils with so great severity that the press bave taken up the matter and insist upon reform. One little girl was so severely beaten rvvenlly tor a trival offense, that she went into hysterica and was ill for a week follow W. When a horse breaks its log it Is now longer necessary to sIhkH it, in order to save its life, as the Irishman did with hi pis: that was hint by tho crs." A rcterinary sorjreon of Utrecht. Lonj I-land, recently set tbe broken hind-leg of a horse so successfully that tho animal is sound as ever. It took about six weeks to effect the cure. ' To dissuade people from marrying send them to the sea-side, and they will be always bearing tho moaning of tbe tied. A man'i v'rtu-s are always where iiiiu ill. m bu faoilta are ran- erallv somewhere round the voraf "